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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
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Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
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Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
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A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
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It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
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An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
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When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by it is fine and written in a masterly manner.
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All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.
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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
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